Kevin Towes

Kevin Towes is the Product Manager at Adobe Systems Incorporated, responsible for Flash Media Server. Prior to Adobe, Kevin spent 13 years working as a prime consultant enabling customers with Flash-based communication, collaboration, social media and video streaming solutions using Flash Media Server. His FMS Live Video work with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) led to an Emmy nomination in 2004.

Sergio Chavez - Working with and Customizing Wordpress

Wordpress is one of the leading blog platforms today.  It can also be used as a Content Management System. You will learn how to set up and customize a wordpress blog from scratch to fit a custom website design flawlessly without using premade templates. You will get also acquainted with the basic structure and function of the wordpress platform so you can theme your blogs and fit them to you and your client's needs.

Leonard Souza - Phidgets and Flex

Ever wanted to take Flex beyond the realm of the web, or even the desktop, and start playing with hardware? Well now you can with Phidgets! Servo motor control? LCD Screens? LED Lighting? RFID? Yup. Learn how to incorporate these delicious little devices into your application just like any other custom component. And learn conventions behind good kiosk development to boot! This session will explore Air 1.5, socket connections, web services, Phidgets (Servo, LCD, LED, and RFID), custom component development and kiosk development.

Mark Piller, Midnight Coders 
http://www.themidnightcoders.com/

Optimizing Flex client/server integration with Java, .NET, PHP backends
Testing and debugging Flex applications
Generating PDF documents from Flex clients
Tracking user behavior and analytics for Flex applications

Plus FREE AppPuncher Debugger Edition Giveaway!

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Chris Rogers, CHRMEDIA
(chris@chrmedia.com, wwww.chrmedia.com)

Chris Rogers, founder of CHRMEDIA, will discuss how to get started in Motion Graphics, workflow issues, common gotchas/things they don't tell you about in the manual, suggestions on training and how to quickly/EASILY produce eye-catching results using BRILLIANT Adobe software like After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, yada. He also has some FABULOUS gifts/giveaways post-NAB, so drive your SUV or rent a U-Haul. ;-)

In the next few days, LV Adobe User Group will post a pdf of his presentation. Chris suggests you print it out and bring with you to the mtg so you can concentrate on what he is saying vs writing down notes.

FLASH COLLABORATION SERVICES (formerly Cocomo) and SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST 2009 FLASH ROUND-UP.
Ryan Stewart, Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist

Garth Braithwaite - "The Next Generation Designer Workflow - Adobe Flash Catalyst"

Lee Brimelow - a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities.

The Flash Blog

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